NATAL is the SHIZNIT!!!

[NJ5]

ironman said:

NJ5 said:

@ironman: What I'm saying is very simple. If this is going to be "your body is the controller" with no traditional buttons, analog sticks or triggers (as announced), it's not going to work for many of the genres we play nowadays. Even a simple game like Wii Bowling needs a button to release the ball.

That means your statement that this blows the Wii out of the water is unjustified, certainly not provable yet. At best you can say it surpasses the Wii in some ways, while the Wii wins in other areas (again, going by the available information and leaving assumptions for later).

 

A simple opening of the hand, or twitch of the thumb would suffice to release the bowling ball. That would be determined by the game developers of course.

Maybe that could work, depending on the camera's accuracy (we have seen nothing using individual fingers yet). That was just the simplest example I could think of though, it's not hard to think about things which will be gimmicky or impossible with this control (such as moving throughout an open 3D world, which happens in lots of current games).

You mentioned higher immersion; yes, that's true and it could happen. Do you really think people want to jump every time there's an obstacle in a game though? Again it might work in some games, and not in others.

It's just a new control method, not a silver bullet.